Cheap blood test could predict a heart attack ten years in advance
The following link is an article written in The Times on Monday 14 January 2019 by Health Correspondent Kat Lay.
This is an interesting new usage of a blood test that has been around a long time. Hitherto, it was used specifically to confirm a diagnosis of a heart attack but the new NICE guidelines have sanctioned a new application for this blood test, namely the identification of seemingly healthy individuals who may be at high risk of a heart attack. The importance of troponin is that it is an enzyme that is only released due to heart muscle cell death. This being the case, its clear that a healthy individual should not have elevated troponin levels in his bloodstream.
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